The Imhotep Museum^[1] is located at the foot of the Saqqara necropolis complex, near Memphis, in Egypt and was bilt as part of strategic site managment Saqqara (Arabic: سقارة) is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, featuring the worlds oldest standing step pyramid. ... Memphis, coordiates , , was the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 1300 BC. Its Ancient Egyptian name was Ineb Hedj (The White Walls). The name Memphis is the Greek deformation of the Egyptian name of Pepi...

The Museum was opened on 26 April 2006, and displays finds from the site, in commemoration of the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep Prof. Zahi Hawass said: I felt that we should call it the Imhotep Museum in tribute to the first architect to use stone rather than perishable materials for the construction on a large scale. This man was second only to the King and in the late period was worshiped as god"' The Museum has a hall dedicated also to a man, an important egyptologist, who excavated the Djoser complex for the all his life: the [|French]] Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer. The Museum has five large hall in which the people can admire masterpieces from Saqqara as for example the Greco-Roman mummy discovered by Zahi Hawass during the excavation at Teti's pyramid complex or the magnificent pair statue of high priest of Mut Amenemhotep and wife belonging to 19th Dynasty and found in vicinity of the causeway of Unas complex. In the entrance hall the visitor is welcomed by a fragment of the Djoser statue in which is possible to read the name of the king and for the first time in the history the name of the architect Imhotep. This found initially was in the great Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The second hall permit to see recent finds and trhay will be rotated in the display. The third hall is dedicated to Imhotep's architecture, it exihibits examples of elements from the Step Pyramd Complex. The fourth hall is called Saqqara style and shows vessels and statues in wooden and stones. The fifth hall is called Saqqara tomb and permits to see objects used in burial from the 6th Dynasty through the New Kingdom. April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... Statuette of Imhotep in the Louvre another image of the same statue Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep, Egyptian ) (2667 BC - 2648 BC) is the first architect and physician known by name in written history. ... An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. ... Jean-Philippe Lauer (May 7, 1902 – May 15, 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist. ...

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1. ^ [1] Museum for a demi-god